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Author : Barbara Solem-Stull
Publisher : Plexus Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Automobile travel
ISBN : 093754860X
Author : James F. McCloy,Ray Miller
Publisher : B B& A Publishers
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0912608110
In the course of its extraordinary history, the Jersey Devil has been exorcised, shot, electrocuted, declared officially dead, and scoffed as foolishness--none of which has had any effect on it or the people who persist in seeing it!This mysterious creature is said to prowl the lonely sand trails and mist-shrouded marshes of the Pine Barrens, and emerge perioducally to rampage through the towns and cities of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, leaving many communities in near-hysteria.The authors show that while a few appearances have been out-right fraud and others have likely been the result of mass hysteria, this creature has been seen by enough sane, sober, and responsible citizens to keep the possiblity of its existence alive and tantalizing.Over 50,000 in print
Author : Barbara Solem
Publisher : Plexus Publishing Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Batsto (N.J.)
ISBN : 1940091012
Founded in the 1760s, Batsto grew into a thriving industrial community through the Revolutionary War years and beyond.
Author : Patricia A. Martinelli,Charles A. Stansfield
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0811731561
An objective yet fun look at stories of the unexplained in New Jersey, including ghosts from shipwrecks, seaside hauntings, demons and monsters such as the Jersey Devil, witches, and encounters with UFOs.
Author : Henry Charlton Beck
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0813510163
Composed, for the most part, from sketches that were published in the Courier-Post newspapers of Camden, New Jersey, Beck provides us with a series of stories of towns too tiny or uncertain for today's maps. Together, these sketches help to create a more complete picture of the history of New Jersey. A connecting skein of untold or little known wartime history--the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the conflict of North against South--runs through most of the sketches. Many of the sketches concern the pine towns and their people, "the pineys" who lived in the Jersey pine barrens.
Author : Karen F. Riley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0738573507
Presents a pictorial history of New Jersey's Pine Barrens, and the people who lived there during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author : Mark Moran,Mark Sceurman
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1402766858
Explores haunted places, local legends, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions found in New Jersey.
Author : T.S.Mart,MelCabre
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781684351251
When a dark shadow passes overhead, do you stop? Or do you run? Infamous sky monsters have haunted our imaginations for centuries. The Thunderbird, steeped in Native American folklore, supposedly controls evil by throwing lightning. The Jersey Devil is said to roam the Pine Barrens of South Jersey, terrorizing anyone who crosses its path. And the cryptic warnings of Mothman have worried residents of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, since the 1960s. In A Guide to Sky Monsters: Thunderbirds, the Jersey Devil, Mothman, and Other Flying Cryptids, authors T. S. Mart and Mel Cabre introduce 20 flying cryptids with legends that span the United States. With 70 hand-drawn illustrations, A Guide to Sky Monsters details our fascination with these creatures and describes both historical evidence found in the fossil record and the specifics of modern-day sightings. By studying the fact, fiction, and pop culture surrounding these notorious beasts, Mart and Cabre help us lean into the question, "What if?" A Guide to Sky Monsters, perfect for the believer and skeptic alike, addresses the wider truths about flying cryptids and leaves us all to wonder whether that breeze was the wind or a wing.
Author : Dennis C. Rizzo
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614234593
The true story of the small African American communities that formed in southern New Jersey during the era of slavery—includes photos. For slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad, names like Springtown and Snow Hill promised sanctuary and salvation. Under the pressures of racial prejudice, many free blacks, runaway slaves, and even Native Americans formed island communities on the periphery of South Jersey towns. While Lawnside and others continue to thrive today, others, like Marshalltown and Timbuctoo, now exist only in memory. In this discussion of these primarily African American communities, Dennis Rizzo validates their role in the preservation of tradition, definition of extended family, and creation of a social bond between diverse peoples; together they formed parallel communities based on, but independent of, the larger towns and villages familiar to residents of the Garden State.
Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780374708672
Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. On all sides, however, developments of one kind or another have gradually moved in, so that now the central and integral forest is reduced to about a thousand square miles. Although New Jersey has the heaviest population density of any state, huge segments of the Pine Barrens remain uninhabited. The few people who dwell in the region, the "Pineys," are little known and often misunderstood. Here McPhee uses his uncanny skills as a journalist to explore the history of the region and describe the people—and their distinctive folklore—who call it home.
Author : Dennis McDonald
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467103565
In 1865, industrialist/inventor Hezekiah Bradley Smith purchased Shreveville, later renamed Smithville, an abandoned textile mill and town located along the Rancocas Creek in Burlington County, for $20,000. He moved many workers from his Lowell, Massachusetts, plant to the new location, rebuilt the factory, and prepared it for the manufacture of his patented iron woodworking machinery. Smith began to improve the aging housing in the surrounding village. He opened a school and, later, constructed a new school building. Smith erected a boardinghouse for factory workers that contained shops and a concert hall. Through farming on land adjacent to his mansion, he made fresh produce and milk available to his workers. Smith's company also expanded into new industries by working with outside inventors, like George Washington Pressey, who needed a manufacturer for his American Star Bicycle. Later, Arthur Hotchkiss contacted the company to build the world's first bicycle railroad to transport workers from Mount Holly to the Smithville factory. This book captures life in the village and factory, memorializing the intertwining lives of the Smithville workers and H.B. Smith through photographs.
Author : Henry Charlton Beck
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : History
ISBN : 0813504325
From Colonial days to the early 1900s, iron forges, glass plants, lumber and paper mills flourished in the New Jersey of the Pine Barrens, in old Burlington, Gloucester and Salem Counties. Around the inlets of the Atlantic shore and on Delaware Bay, whaling and shipbuilding were important industries. Times have changed. Many of the old towns have fallen into ruin or disappeared, swallowed up in the abandoned lands of South Jersey or swept away by the unrelenting tides of the Jersey coast. Henry Charlton Black, raised in Haddonfield for years, shared his endless delight in the land and the lore of South Jersey. He, like a few other devoted Jerseyans, began to hunt out in the 1930s the old sites and to record the stories handed down from generation to generation, clear back to early settlers. In this sequel to Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey, his visits to the state's early heritage - churches, villages, and roads - are continued. He explores the routes of old railroads and the tangled wilderness of the Forked River Mountains, and he tells the lost stories of forgotten glass and iron and shipbuilding villages.
Author : John Howard Frank,L. Philip Lounibos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Aquatic insects
ISBN : UCSD:31822000482612
Author : Pete Dunne
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780547487700
Bypassed by time and “Joisey” Shore–bound vacationers, the marshes and forests of the Bayshore constitute one of North America’s last great undiscovered wild places. Sixty million people live within a tank of gas of this environmentally rich and diverse place, yet most miss out on the region’s amazing spectacles. Bayshore Summer is a bridge that links the rest of the world to this timeless land. Pete Dunne acts as ambassador and tour guide, following Bayshore residents as they haul crab traps, bale salt hay, stake out deer poachers, and pick tomatoes. He examines and appreciates this fertile land, how we live off it and how all of us connect with it. From the shorebirds that converge by the thousands to gorge themselves on crab eggs to the delicious fresh produce that earned the Garden State its nickname, from the line-dropping expectancy of party boat fishing to the waterman who lives on a first-name basis with the birds around his boat, Bayshore Summer is at once an expansive and intimate portrait of a special place, a secret Eden, and a glimpse into a world as rich as summer and enduring as a whispered promise.